Belly Button Healing?

LO's cord fell off today, she's 18 days old. under where it was, it looks like unhealed flesh. not infected, not red, not draining etc. It just isn't normal dry healed pink skin, don't know how else to explain it. Did anyone else have this? I don't really understand the science of the umbilical cord lol so to me looking at this I feel like it's her insides lol.

LO's cord fell off today, she's 18 days old. under where it was, it looks like unhealed flesh. not infected, not red, not draining etc. It just isn't normal dry healed pink skin, don't know how else to explain it. Did anyone else have this? I don't really understand the science of the umbilical cord lol so to me looking at this I feel like it's her insides lol.

When my ds cord fell off it looked like that also. I kind of freaked out, lol! It looked fleshy and not like a normal belly button. It dried up and cleared and now looks like a normal belly button. I didn't do anything to it, just kept it clean and dry. At my next well visit I asked the pedi to take a look at his belly button and he said it looked great. It also had a small amount of clear drainage. It did not look infected, if it did I would of taken him in right away. GL!

When my ds cord fell off it looked like that also. I kind of freaked out, lol! It looked fleshy and not like a normal belly button. It dried up and cleared and now looks like a normal belly button. I didn't do anything to it, just kept it clean and dry. At my next well visit I asked the pedi to take a look at his belly button and he said it looked great. It also had a small amount of clear drainage. It did not look infected, if it did I would of taken him in right away. GL!

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